Thank you all very much for the help, simply I had done everything correctly but did not understand that it was a Unix program and how to run it. I followed your sage advice and WHoa... it all works. I kinda understand now how people believe in magic... I am new to apple, and other sophisticated stuff.
Thanks for treating a complete muppet with kid gloves ...
Regards
Rory Mackay
On Jul 30, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
Does octave not require an X windows environment also? Do you have X11 or xfree86 installed? Do you know how to start it up from the Terminal (startx)? Hope this helps
Brian
On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 06:10 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
To add more to this:
Open a terminal window. Terminal is in Applications->Utilities
You will get to a prompt that looks like a # or $ or something similar. At that point type "octave" and hit the return key and your application will execute.
On Jul 29, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Rory Mackay wrote:
Hi
I am a rank outsider here, please forgive total ignorance. I have bumbled through installing Fink and Fink Commander and the package I want to run. (Octave) How do I Install and run it?
Fink commander assures me it has been installed and current. I see no icon or whatever to click on to run it on my applications folder. My fiddling in Fink Commander has not destroyed anything, and produced nothing useful.
Is there any document or procedure that I can be directed to to start this up?
I have g4 ibook and osX 10.3
Thanks in advance and feel free to scare your children with my ignorance....; -)
Rory Mackay
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You've installed Unix applications, rather than an OSX application bundle, so you run them from the command line, not by clicking an icon. You can see what was installed where by running "dpkg -L octave". The executables are installed in /sw/bin.
In this case, if your environment is set up properly, you should run the main executable in the command line as so:
octave
There's online docs at:
http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_2.html#SEC6
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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